NIDM supports the Disaster Management Centres (DMC's) in all states. Majority of such centres are located at State ATI's. Under this scheme, NIDM provides financial assistance to support four faculty members and other support staff. Besides, the programme expenses of the Disaster Management Centres are also borne by NIDM. At present a total of 29 such Centres have been set up and a few more are in the process of being set up. The training programmes of the Centres are developed through a consultative process in the Annual Training Conference organised by NIDM for this purpose. The Annual Training Conference is attended by the Relief Commissioners of the States, Director Generals of the ATIs, and representatives of the concerned nodal Ministries and departments of the Government of India. As a rule, the DMC's have to conduct a minimum of 25 training programmes and train at-least 500 participants every year. Together all the Disaster Management Centres train more than 25000 cutting edge functionaries of the government.